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Glasgow Live
Glasgow Live
National
Sarah Hilley

Glasgow football teams face becoming 'homeless' after pitch takeover

Football teams which help train 130 kids face becoming 'homeless', it has been warned, as council pitches in the north of Glasgow are handed to a new operator.

Coaches said young players at Springburn Park are no longer being offered suitable times for training since Brunswick Community Development Trust began to take over the running of the site.

And Athena Glasgow Women and Girls Football Academy and Ashfield Juniors Football Club and Youth Academy all fear they will have to move impacted teams elsewhere despite playing at Springburn Park's synthetic pitch for a number of years.

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